diff --git a/src/backend.c b/src/backend.c
index 4120f449d..197792f42 100644
--- a/src/backend.c
+++ b/src/backend.c
@@ -4384,6 +4384,17 @@ int backend_ctx_init (hashcat_ctx_t *hashcat_ctx)
       hip_close (hashcat_ctx);
     }
 
+    #if defined (_WIN)
+    if ((rc_hip_init == 0) && (rc_hiprtc_init == -1))
+    {
+      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Support for HIPRTC was dropped by AMD Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 and later.");
+      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "This is not a hashcat problem.");
+      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Please install the AMD HIP SDK");
+      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+    }
+    #endif
+
     /**
      * Load and map HIPRTC library calls
      */
@@ -4401,17 +4412,6 @@ int backend_ctx_init (hashcat_ctx_t *hashcat_ctx)
       hiprtc_close (hashcat_ctx);
     }
 
-    if ((rc_hip_init == 0) && (rc_hiprtc_init == -1))
-    {
-      #if defined (_WIN)
-      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Support for HIPRTC was dropped by AMD Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 and later.");
-      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "This is not a hashcat problem.");
-      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
-      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Please install the AMD HIP SDK");
-      event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
-      #endif
-    }
-
     /**
      * Check if both HIP and HIPRTC were load successful
      */
@@ -7149,6 +7149,39 @@ int backend_ctx_devices_init (hashcat_ctx_t *hashcat_ctx, const int comptime)
             device_param->pcie_bus      = amdtopo.pcie.bus;
             device_param->pcie_device   = amdtopo.pcie.device;
             device_param->pcie_function = amdtopo.pcie.function;
+
+            if (user_options->stdout_flag == false)
+            {
+              // recommend HIP
+
+              if ((backend_ctx->hip == NULL) || (backend_ctx->hiprtc == NULL))
+              {
+                if (user_options->backend_ignore_hip == false)
+                {
+                  if (backend_ctx->rc_hip_init == -1)
+                  {
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Failed to initialize the AMD main driver HIP runtime library. Please install the AMD HIP SDK.");
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+                  }
+                  else
+                  {
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Successfully initialized the AMD main driver HIP runtime library.");
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+                  }
+
+                  if (backend_ctx->rc_hiprtc_init == -1)
+                  {
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Failed to initialize AMD HIP RTC library. Please install the AMD HIP SDK.");
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+                  }
+                  else
+                  {
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, "Successfully initialized AMD HIP RTC library.");
+                    event_log_warning (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+            }
           }
 
           if ((device_param->opencl_platform_vendor_id == VENDOR_ID_NV) && (device_param->opencl_device_vendor_id == VENDOR_ID_NV))
diff --git a/src/ext_hip.c b/src/ext_hip.c
index 95bec69e1..5d5bf0510 100644
--- a/src/ext_hip.c
+++ b/src/ext_hip.c
@@ -8,9 +8,39 @@
 #include "memory.h"
 #include "event.h"
 #include "ext_hip.h"
+#include "shared.h"
 
 #include "dynloader.h"
 
+char *hipDllPath (char *hipSDKPath)
+{
+  /*
+    AMD HIP DLLs is stored at "C:\Program Files\ROCm\X.Y\bin\amdhip64_X.dll"
+
+    This function can return complete dll path based on major release version
+    X.Y parsed from the ENV variable HIP_PATH.
+  */
+
+  const char *marker = "\\ROCm\\";
+
+  int major = 0;
+  int minor = 0;
+
+  const char *version_start = strstr (hipSDKPath, marker);
+
+  if (version_start == NULL) return NULL;
+
+  version_start += strlen (marker); // now points at "6.2\\"
+
+  if (sscanf (version_start, "%d.%d", &major, &minor) != 2) return NULL;
+
+  char *hipdllpath = NULL;
+
+  hc_asprintf (&hipdllpath, "%s\\bin\\amdhip64_%d.dll", hipSDKPath, major);
+
+  return (hipdllpath);
+}
+
 int hip_init (void *hashcat_ctx)
 {
   backend_ctx_t *backend_ctx = ((hashcat_ctx_t *) hashcat_ctx)->backend_ctx;
@@ -20,7 +50,22 @@ int hip_init (void *hashcat_ctx)
   memset (hip, 0, sizeof (HIP_PTR));
 
   #if   defined (_WIN)
-  hip->lib = hc_dlopen ("amdhip64.dll");
+  char *hipSDKPath = getenv ("HIP_PATH");
+
+  if (hipSDKPath == NULL) return -1;
+
+  char *hipdllpath = hipDllPath (hipSDKPath);
+
+  if (hipdllpath)
+  {
+    hip->lib = hc_dlopen (hipdllpath);
+
+    free (hipdllpath);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    return -1;
+  }
   #elif defined (__APPLE__)
   hip->lib = hc_dlopen ("fixme.dylib");
   #elif defined (__CYGWIN__)